Muromec

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811.
by Muromec 1y ago
I call sunk cost fallacy on this sentiment.
812.
by Muromec 1y ago
Well, yes?
813.
by Muromec 1y ago
Life quality wise West Europe is still the best place on this planet.
814.
by Muromec 1y ago
Does it ever? Blood thrist has a tendency to increase when cruelty is paid for by your taxes, while the source of frustrations isn't going anywhere
815.
by Muromec 1y ago
>Folks aren’t going to be sitting around on Monday morning saying jeez Billy on the H1B visa didn’t show up to work today and we have no clue why, guess he is fired! I deeply suspect it will go both ways -- one Billy would be paid for, w
816.
by Muromec 1y ago
Why can't they set a salary cutoff for visas at something like 1.5x of median salary in the same industry? That's what EU does. No lottery, no degree requirement even -- if the company wants you to pay above the market, they can,
817.
by Muromec 1y ago
This is not what functioning bureaucracy in a functioning democracy looks like.
818.
by Muromec 1y ago
It is a solved problem with tools that help to do it right, but nobody does it right. People wrote that cursed function for every language long time ago, but you as a developer need to know it exists and use it
819.
by Muromec 1y ago
Translation is always a pain in the ass if developers are monolingual in English. On every project I ever worked on somebody had thingCount == 1 ? 'thing' : 'things' somewhere and it drives me up the wall having to expla
820.
by Muromec 1y ago
>It all comes down to "the vendor can do things with your computer you can't do yourself" in the end. It's not even that. A console vendor that locks down everything behind the TPM helps to not deal with cheaters is a
821.
by Muromec 1y ago
Because it's offshore so it would be cheap, which already provides a metric that is being optimized.
822.
by Muromec 1y ago
>when something goes wrong that blackbox should be decrypt-able so we can look at the logs and see what went wrong. We always check the logs and when something goes wrong we vote for the box to explode
823.
by Muromec 1y ago
I remember opening a bank account in a green one, while being on a tourist visa. Don't remember how they even established my address or anything beyond basic id. No real followup on source of funds or anything either. Wire comes in, ca
824.
by Muromec 1y ago
They used to just kill without trial those believed to be tied to drug deals too.
825.
by Muromec 1y ago
That isn't always a scam actually. A lot of old fa^W men retire and marry a citizen to secure rights to the land under their house. I have seen a lot of that (entire gated communities) and it all seemed long-term and high-commitment an
826.
by Muromec 1y ago
>Is there a medical term for the beneficial effects of putting dirt into your mouth as a child? "hygiene hypothesis"
827.
by Muromec 1y ago
I for once don't let mine out of the house without a full face cover so strangers on the street don't get any ideas, so I'm right there with you.
828.
by Muromec 1y ago
>Everybody loves public transit until they get panhandled for the jillionth time, or they witness (or experience) violence, or some other anti-social behavior sours the whole thing. Haven't seen any of that in 30 years of using publ
829.
by Muromec 1y ago
Yesterday I asked one LLM about certain provisions of Ukrainian law, where severity threshold for a financial crime was specified indirectly through a certain well known constant. The machine got it wrong and when asked to give sources cite
830.
by Muromec 1y ago
There is responding to incentives and there is adopting 10 kids to farm child subsidy/benefits.
831.
by Muromec 1y ago
>Supporting any regulation at all can only be from bad motives, and therefore should be avoided? It's just vibe check heuristic -- if the regulated throws a tantrum telling how switching to USB-C charging or opening up the app store
832.
by Muromec 1y ago
Citation needed period
833.
by Muromec 1y ago
Regulating the industry, when supported by industry, indicates that company wants regulatory act as moat and prevent competition. That and "ethically dubious" is underselling genocide enablers transgressions
834.
by Muromec 1y ago
I would be surprised if the database with SSN of all adult americans wasn't out there on the usual data dumps website available for 5 dollars.
835.
by Muromec 1y ago
And once you do understand -- then what? You stop complaining and decide to put up with whatever the powers to be are up to, right?
836.
by Muromec 1y ago
There is a rule of subsidiarity -- problems have to be solved at the lowest level possible, because it has the most information. If it's not, it bubbles up to the next level upwards. EU, US and Catholic church all do this to the variou
837.
by Muromec 1y ago
Is it really "universal"? Bottom of the sea has subsidies for childcare for certain income threshold when both parents are working. It's pretty close to free childcare practically speaking.
838.
by Muromec 1y ago
>What’s frustrating about this is that conservatives are always warning about the decreasing child birth rate. But fight against policies that would help support families who have children. That's what happens when party doesn'
839.
by Muromec 1y ago
What kind of childcare you can get for 7 CAD a day? Where I'm right now it's something like 10 enlightenment bucks per hour.
840.
by Muromec 1y ago
By the time US decides it's a good idea, they would run out of money and the whole world will laugh and point fingers on em.

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